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“The Esperanza High School Jazz I Ensemble, under the direction of Bradley Davis, won first place earlier this month at the prestigious Charles Mingus High School Competition & Festival at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.”

“Since the early 1990s, with changing personnel, this band has played the music of Charles Mingus in regular residencies at New York clubs, making the essence of the bassist’s work rise up on a regular basis. Under the artistic direction of Mingus’s widow, Sue Mingus, the band delivers the technical and emotional curves of the music with authority…”